Martin Wetzer

Paul Martin Wetzer (7 August 1868-29 September 1954) was a Lieutenant-General of the Finnish Army during World War I and the Finnish Civil War.

Biography
Paul Martin Wetzer was born in Pfronten, Bavaria on 7 August 1868. He entered the army of Finland in 1889, and he graduated from the University of Helsinki as a schoolteacher in 1898. From 1914 to 1917, he served in the Imperial Russian Army during World War I, and he became a Lieutenant-General in the newly-formed Finnish Army after Finland gained its independence in 1917. Wetzer commanded troops on the Vilppula front, fighting against the Finnish Red Guards. After taking Tampere, he became a Major-General, and he soon became commander of the entire Western Army. He retired in June 1918, and he commanded Finnish volunteers in the Estonian army for three months. He resigned from the army in 1925 with a rank of Lieutenant-General, having been one of many Czarist officers to be ousted; he worked as a lawyer for years. During the Winter War and Continuation War, he distributed badges to wounded soldiers. He died in 1954.